“But if, on examination, they can neither find the sermon in the text, nor the text in the sermon, their minds are perplexed, and they begin to think the Bible is a deep book which cannot be understood” (Ryle, Simplicity in Preaching, p. 8).
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Somewhere I picked up the idea that when a sermon is drawn from the text, the explanations or exhortations should be unified by one major point made by the text. Humanly speaking, effective preaching is therefore more than either a running commentary, or a string of applications from topics present in the text.